Nikita was born 25 November 2009 . On the fourth day of life, after being vaccinated against hepatitis B, Nikita turned yellow. No one attached any special significance to this — natural jaundice in newborns. But a month passes, and the baby is still the same, yellow.
The parents begin to worry, but their local doctor assures them that everything is fine and will soon pass. Another month passes, and the parents, no longer trusting the doctor, begin taking Nikita to other specialists. First, a hospital in Lutsk, from there a referral to Kyiv in Okhmatdet, diagnosis — biliary atresia.
From they were referred to Lviv Children's Hospital, where a four-month-old baby undergoes surgery on Kasai on the bile ducts. It seemed the worst was over; they promised to discharge him soon. But time passes, and the child's condition worsens. His liver cells are starting to die, requiring an urgent transplant. This verdict stunned the parents, who had been promised until that their child would recover after the operation, and then suddenly a transplant is needed, costing 65 — 70 thousand euros, and this amount could rise even more.
To raise this enormous sum, Nikita has almost no time. Since treatment of micronodular liver cirrhosis in an infant with medical institutions within Ukraine (the chief specialist of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine concludes that referral for is not possible in treatment abroad is necessary). Doctors decide to refer the child abroad because
The doctors decide to send the child abroad, since Ukraine does not have the equipment needed for diagnosis and treatment. A Polish clinic agrees to admit the boy, but a first instalment of 3 750 euros has to be paid. The long treatment of the child (more than 6 months), the operation and the treatment of his father, Roman Khytryi, (diagnosis: sarcoidosis of the lungs) have taken all the family's savings, and they have no one to expect help from.
Due to constant absences to the hospital to visit his son, Roman is fired from his job, and the family is left practically without means to subsist. Nikita begins to accumulate fluid in his abdominal cavity, his condition is rapidly deteriorating, and it is necessary to immediately travel to Poland. People who care, even though they are complete strangers to Nikita, begin to help the little one, and in a couple of weeks, they manage to raise enough for the first payment!
The little one and his parents travel to the Warsaw clinic. He's a good boy, he can handle the journey, and in Poland, they are admitted and diagnostics begin. But the money raised was barely enough for the down payment — for two weeks of diagnostics, one week already gone!
Only a few days left, by during which time we need to raise a huge amount (for Nikita's family, it's simply sky-high).
